OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 20 shown for “Jacob Burying Idols Under an Oak Tree from The Story of Jacob series” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:06 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Jacob Burying Idols Under an Oak Tree from The Story of Jacob series

Jacob Burying Idols Under an Oak Tree from The Story of Jacob series

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Public domainThe Met
Laban reproves Jacob for leaving secretely, by Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, the Younger, 1698–after 1744

Laban reproves Jacob for leaving secretely

Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, the Younger, 1698–after 1744 · 1725–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Fields, by Jacob van Ruisdael

Wheat Fields

Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Mark the Evangelist, by Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Mark the Evangelist

Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written By Herself

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written By Herself

Artist not stated in the record · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Winter, by Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Winter

Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
Jacob Haehnlen's Lithographic and Steam Power Letter Press Printing Rooms, by Haehnlen, Jacob

Jacob Haehnlen's Lithographic and Steam Power Letter Press Printing Rooms

Haehnlen, Jacob · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Study of "Courage" for Memorial Window to Jacob Dolson Cox, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Study of "Courage" for Memorial Window to Jacob Dolson Cox, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Putti playing before a herm, by Jacob de Wit, 1695 – 1754

Putti playing before a herm

Jacob de Wit, 1695 – 1754 · 1750–1752

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Bond for the hire of the enslaved man Jacob by Edward Rouzee

Bond for the hire of the enslaved man Jacob by Edward Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 28, 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus, by Gerard David

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate, by Gerard David

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Cupboard (Beeldenkast)

Cupboard (Beeldenkast)

Artist not stated in the record · 1622

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Crucifixion

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 222 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3166042 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 16:06 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.